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UK Visitor attractions see 3.2% increase in visitor numbers in ALVA figures 2015
A staggering 65,218,272 people visited attractions in London and therefore it is no surprise that the Top 10 most visited attractions were all London based. The British Museum continued to be the most popular visitor attraction overall for the 9th… Read more
Kossmann.dejong designs ‘THE BUDDHA’
What makes the life of this spiritual leader so intriguing? How do effigies from different countries distinguish themselves? What are people looking for when they turn to Buddhism? These and other questions are central to the exhibition ‘THE BUDDHA’. Visitors… Read more
Architects and designers confirmed for Burrell Collection’s £66m redevelopment
Gardiner & Theobald LLP has been appointed to undertake the Project Management with John McAslan + Partners as Architect and Lead Designer for the refurbishment of the building, with Event Communications has been appointed to deliver exhibition and interpretative design… Read more
Museums + Heritage Show 2016 announces extensive programme of free talks and one-to-one expert advice
Taking place at Olympia West in London, on 18-19 May, the Museums + Heritage Show 2016 combines two great days of free-to-attend talks with the sector’s largest trade exhibition of more than 150 suppliers. The event is designed to offer… Read more
Digital.Bodleian – providing a single search and discovery interface for existing digitised collections
The desire of the Digital.Bodleian Project was to migrate multiple silos of content – content which had been put online by the Bodleian Library at various times over the previous 15 years – into a single storage… Read more
Cynefin project – National Library of Wales – repairing and digitising the country’s tithe maps
The Cynefin project is a three year project launched in October 2013 and set for completion this autumn, which involves digitising more than 1,000 tithe maps, includes substantial conservation work on the majority of them. There are… Read more
Collections Dive at Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums – finding new ways to present digital content
The Collections Dive at TWAM is an alternative mode of presenting the collections for discovery and although it is not presenting any records online for the first time (objects presented were already digitised and made available by… Read more
14 men convicted of nationwide museum raids stealing objects worth between £18 and £57m
The gang was brought to justice after a four-year covert national investigation – Operation Griffin – led by officers from Durham and Cambridgeshire, supported by the National Crime Agency and the National Police Chiefs Council. Between November 2011 and April… Read more
Fighting for a balanced national cultural policy – Q&A with GPS Culture on new report to better regional arts funding
What was your aim in researching the report? We have to set the bar high for the Government’s Culture White Paper. We need to fight for a holistic and balanced national cultural policy and funding settlement, designed to… Read more